Lin Yuquan's flight arrived at Los Angeles Airport at 9 o'clock on March 15, Los Angeles time, and after returning to Beverly Hills to put his luggage and rest for a while, he immediately drove out, first had lunch in the restaurant, and then drank a cup of coffee at a nearby café, and then went to Summit Entertainment.

“boss。” “boss。” “boss。” Smiling all the way and greeting the employees of the company, Lin Yuquan went straight to Chris. Anderson's office.

"Boss, you're really early again, let me introduce you, this is the director of "Black Valentine". Win, James, he also belongs to the early arrival. Seeing Lin Yuquan come in, Chris, who was originally sitting on the sofa and chatting with a yellow-skinned, black-haired, thin young man. Anderson said with a smile as he got up.

"Hello, Director Lin, I'm Wen Ziren, it's a pleasure to meet you." By Chris. Anderson called James. Wen's thin young man quickly got up and said in slightly stumbling Chinese.

"Hello, Director Wen Ziren, I didn't expect you to speak Chinese." Lin Yuquan showed a smile on his face and shook hands with the other party, although the other party was born in Malaysia, grew up in Australia, and is not really Chinese, but it is not so easy to meet a Chinese director who can speak Chinese in Hollywood, especially the other party is still an excellent Chinese director, which makes him feel very cordial and said with a smile: "But let's still speak English, otherwise Chris doesn't know what we're talking about?" ”

"Okay. In fact, I only learned a little bit of Chinese. It's been a long time since it worked. Wen Ziren said with a smile.

"It's good to be able to speak a few words of Chinese. It's hard to meet a director who speaks Chinese here. Lin Yuquan chuckled, sat down on the sofa and continued: "James, I like your "Chainsaw" very much, in my opinion, the first part of "Chainsaw" filmed by you is the best in the entire series so far, why didn't you continue to direct the sequel?" ”

Lin Yuquan looked puzzled in his words, compared to Lin Yibin, Wen Ziren's fame is even more amazing, he was only 27 years old when he directed the debut film "Chainsaw". 5 days to prepare, 18 days to shoot, this low-cost horror film with an investment of only 1.2 million US dollars, with excellent creativity and excellent production, the North American box office is 55.18 million US dollars, and the global box office is 103 million US dollars.

Since then, Lionsgate has released a sequel to Saw every year. So far, 4 films have been filmed. Although the box office of the movies is good, the global box office of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th films is $152 million, $163 million, and $134 million respectively, and the cost of the sequel is only $10 million at most.

But the reputation of the film is not very good, at least in Lin Yuquan's opinion, compared with the first part, the gap between the two is not a little bit and a half, if the first one is enough to become a classic of horror films, then the latter few have gradually become ordinary works with bloody horror elements.

And the reason for this is definitely related to the change of director of the sequel, in Lin Yuquan's opinion, if the sequel is directed by Wen Ziren, even if it cannot surpass the previous work, it will not decline so badly in quality.

It stands to reason that as the director who created the horror classic of "Saw", Lionsgate has no reason not to know the importance of Wen Ziren to "Saw". So unless Lionsgate's Frank. Gusta's brain was in water, otherwise, he would never be stupid enough to replace Wen Ziren immediately.

Obviously, the reason why Wen Ziren did not make a sequel may only be his personal reason, not the decision of Lionsgate.

"The main reason is that Ray and I are afraid that we will be limited by this story mode, so we focus on other movies." Wen Ziren smiled slightly.

"I see." Lin Yuquan nodded, indeed, if Wen Ziren continues to direct the sequel to "Saw", although he can be a huge success at the box office, according to Lionsgate's plan of one sequel a year, he will have to be tired of running in the mode of "Saw": "This is the best, if it weren't for this, you should be busy with "Saw 5" by now, and there will be no chance to cooperate with you." ”

"Hehe, it's my pleasure." Wen Ziren smiled.

"Where, this is our honor for Summit Entertainment, it's not easy to invite an excellent horror film director like James to direct "Black Valentine" this time, boss, this is James's revised script, Kevin and I have studied it, and they both think the script is very good." Chris. Anderson handed a script to Lin Yuquan.

"Oh, is it? That's a must-see. Lin Yuquan took the script and immediately looked at it, I have to say that Wen Ziren has a strong grasp of the genre of horror films, he has seen the original script of "Black Valentine" before, in his eyes, the original script of "Black Valentine" is just a very old-fashioned horror film, and the selling point is nothing more than the bloody thriller element in it, but after Wen Ziren's modification, the pattern of the whole movie is suddenly different, and more emphasis is placed on the psychological transformation of several protagonists in the story to fight against serial murderers in order to save their lives. Starting from the details and the plot, although there are fewer bloody elements, the terrifying atmosphere is undoubtedly even better. Tong Guò's layered and progressive layers of terrifying atmosphere, step by step to introduce people into the preconceived feelings, and finally show the suffocating horror, is quite clever.

In the process of chatting with Wen Ziren about the script and film shooting, Lin Yuquan has a deeper understanding of the other party's outstanding directing ability.

"I don't think James you should just make horror movies, maybe you should try to shoot more genre films, and hopefully we will have more opportunities to work together in the future." Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, in his eyes, Wen Ziren, who is famous for shooting horror films, has three abilities: first, he is good at grasping the psychology of the audience; Second, know how to carry out cost control; Third, he can break through ordinary imagination, so he is fully capable of shooting more other types of commercial films.

"Of course. I hope to be with you too. There are more collaborations with Summit Entertainment. Wen Ziren said with a smile on his face.

"That's settled. There's a new script, welcome to Summit Entertainment. ”

During the chat, time passed quickly, and after that, directors also arrived one after another, and Lin Yuquan also met the director of "Fatal Bend 3" for the first time. Gang and "The Boxer" director Gavin. O'Connor.

Although the two are unknown in the world, they can be invited to direct "Fatal Bend 3" and "Boxer", so they naturally have outstanding directing ability.

Among them, the former has just completed the well-received directorial debut "Demon Worm Mouth" in 05. Before that, "Silly Mio and Juliet", "Scooby-Doo", "Scooby-Doo 2: Monster Runaway", and "Dawn of the Living Dead", which were written by him, all achieved excellent results.

The latter is a director who has not many works, but each one can be regarded as a well-made zuò, and he is very good at shooting sports-themed movies, and his "Baseball Rookie" and "Miracle on Ice" have become classics of sports inspirational films.

Plus Chris. Columbus, Stallone and Zack. Schneider, the directors of Summit Entertainment's current production plan are all here.

The crowd also moved to the conference room to discuss the creation and preparation of their respective works, and the budgets of some films were readjusted according to their ideas.

Lin Yuquan has never been a stingy person when it comes to movie investment, as long as it is worth the money. He always wants to be the best.

Afterwards, after the meeting, a group of directors, including the directors and the management of Summit Entertainment, had dinner. Of course, this is paid for by Lin Yuquan privately.

And early the next morning, Lin Yuquan came to Summit Entertainment again.

"Amanda, you've worked hard all this time." Lin Yuquan said sincerely.

"Boss, this is what I should do, if you feel sorry for it, you can give me and everyone some bonuses." Amanda. Pacino said with a bright smile.

"Bonus, what you think is beautiful, delayed me for so long, almost affected the preparation of the movie, it's very good if you don't deduct your salary." Lin Yuquan scolded with a smile.

"Boss, I did everything you told me, and I didn't find a candidate for Young Bryce who satisfied you in the audition, so it can't be counted on my head." Amanda. Pacino immediately pretended to be aggrieved.

"Oh, it means my fault!" Lin Yuquan said with a smile.

"Of course not, it's not my fault, it's not your fault, it's why Bryce isn't in the United States." Amanda. Pacino smiled wittily.

"Okay, it's Bryce's fault, count you through." Lin Yuquan smiled slightly, the four young Blythe candidates for today's audition are from different countries, one is the United Kingdom, one is Spain, one is Spain, and one is Australia.

"Boss, which one is your favorite candidate at the moment?" Amanda. Pacino curious.

"Well, I can't say it, what I said, won't it affect you, I'm still waiting for the audition for a while, you can give me the most pertinent advice." Lin Yuquan shook his head.

"Alright then!" Amanda. Pacino was slightly disappointed, but he also knew that this was the most correct decision, and it was also the meaning of his existence as a casting director.

The audition was nine o'clock in the morning, but at half past eight, the four auditioning actors, their families or agents had already arrived at Summit Entertainment, and it was clear that everyone was very concerned about this audition.

Lin Yuquan understands everyone's feelings very well, although the auditioners have come, he did not choose to start the audition in advance, with the current situation of the four of them being too nervous, it is naturally not suitable for the audition, which will affect their appearance in the audition.

It wasn't until 10 a.m., after it was determined that the four had used enough time to adjust their relationship, that the audition officially began.

"Hello everyone, welcome to the audition for "Heartbeat", I'm Lin Yuquan, do any of you know me?"

Fifty minutes later.

In the conference room of Summit Entertainment, Lin Yuquan looked at a document in his hand and smiled with a smile on his face: "Kevin, arrange for someone to discuss and sign a contract with him!" In terms of salary, although it can't be compared with Abigir. Bryce Limby, but don't be shabby, he's the male lead, and I don't want to be considered a picker. ”

"Okay, boss, heh, meet you, this little guy from Australia is lucky." Kevin. Garnett chuckled

With all the main actors selected, Lin Yuquan once again entered a new round of busyness and joined Brody. Jenner, Fenton. Papameko, Bill. Breskey and other crew members are busy preparing for the film.

Compared with his previous films, there are not too many scenes in "Heartbeat", mainly Julie. Baker and Bryce's home, as well as the school, made preparations for the film go on quickly.

At the same time, the domestic Shuguang film after the Spring Festival in addition to preparing for the production of zuò films, TV series projects, also began to start the variety show plan, after more than a month, the newly formed variety show department has been fully formed, the supervisor is recommended by the headhunting company Shen Yuan, the other party is a Star Media Group's Star Satellite TV is responsible for the production of variety shows senior producer, the other party will officially take office in mid-April, fully take over the production of variety shows.

And although he has not yet taken office, Shen Yuan has already begun to arrange, the first to start will be the food documentary, which is the easiest to start, the first thing to do is to set up the main creative team, including directors, producers, food consultants, planners and others, followed by before filming, start to think about the theme, collect the number of jù, write the plan, write the script process, the easy thing is that the specific content can actually be handed over to the main creative team to operate.

As for food variety shows and music talent shows, they are relatively complicated, before they are launched, there must be a clear plan, and then a team will be formed according to the plan, due to Lin Yuquan's strict quality requirements for the program, this is bound to not be launched in a short time, and it takes a long time to carefully conceive.

The preparation of "Heartbeat" is smooth, and the Shuguang movie variety show is about to set sail, for Lin Yuquan, this is definitely a double happiness, so his mood is particularly happy.

And when the time comes to March 28, when the preparations for "Heartbeat" tend to be completed, the first film released by Summit Entertainment this year is finally about to be released, and the release is "Fatal Bend 2", a horror sequel to the previous work with a box office of over 100 million, with the intervention of Lin Yuquan, it got a sufficient budget, and the final production cost was $15 million.

Although this is not comparable to the "Resident Evil" series, this is not a small amount, taking "Chainsaw" as an example, the first part of Chainsaw has an investment of $1.2 million, the second part is $4 million, and the third and fourth parts are $10 million.

Increasing the investment in "Fatal Bend 2" is Lin Yuquan's personal decision, and he is naturally quite looking forward to what kind of results this blockbuster horror sequel that is a blockbuster horror sequel in horror films. (To be continued......)

PS: All kinds of numbers have fallen to the bottom.,I feel like I'm in a sluggish state.,It's only 4,000 words today.,Sorry.,Read the novel tonight.,Strive to regain your state tomorrow.。